Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-01-02

.r -erLon YOU know what q duel is?'
Yes.
,NtU. the chanteS agin us was about the
sun. Is you'd have et You Was putupagn
enorlrg chap who Was allowed To draw
b..sd na You. and the signal {" tre was
yagr drlwlu yruy weapon. You may be
.,~rrr.r Oh this sort % thing. and ? traps
,,n urysrol.ht . duel buJ even then, YOU
, Nau,Gu. :, tno.ia. your lite away on any
% such chances.
~,mrtllug I'm the man : manner, rs Of a
certain ,lv amusement the other passengers
Ipp.arrd L. extract from the conversation,
IMPRESSED Hale. already beginning TO he
conscious of tie iJiIyroUS InSutticIeucy OF
his own grievance beside that OF his inter
locutor.
Then you mean to say this thing is IN
IeyitlbIp, ' said he bitterly, but less aggreS-
sjveIy.
IL long ez they hunt YOU; when you
hunt them YOU We got the advantage, allus
provided YOU know how to get at them eZ
we'll ~ they know how toget at you. This
yer coach Is bound 10 20 regular, and on
certain days. They amt. BY the time
the sheriff gets ont his posse they've ske-
daddied, and the leader, like Is not, is
takIu MS quiet cocktail at the Bank EN-
change, OF mebhe loSiu' his earnings to
the sheriff over draw poker in Sacramento
You see YOU cant prove anything agin
them unless You take them on the It's. >
Ii may b. part OF joaquin Murietta' :
band, though 1 wouldn't swear to it.
The leader might have been Gentleman
George, from up country interpOSed a
. passenger. He seemed 70 throw few
fancy touches, pIvticlerly in that Good
/ might SUrter chUrked a little sentiment
in H. Didn't seem 10 be tbs same thing ez
. Cit, Yer ID suckers. on the other line. -
Whoever he was he knew the road and
the men who Travelled on it. Like ez not
the box on the down trip and tool, stock
/ OF everything He even knew / had those
creenbICkS, though they were handed to
me in the banks at Sacramento. He must
have been haugin' round there.
For some moments Hale remained silent
lie was a ciyil-bred man, with an intense
love OF law and order; the kind of man
who is the first TO take that law and or
der into his own hands when he does not
lind il existing to please him. He had a
.
dItlou and prupriety, but was willing to
/ face ,rregularlty and improperly TO create
order elsewhere. He was fond OF nature
with these Limitations, never quite trust
my her uuguidrd instincts, and finding
/ urr rs an iuSJvurtreSs greatly inferior TO
Harvard university, though possibly not
90 Cornell. With dauutless enterprise and
energy he had built and stocked n charm
. lng cottage farm in a nook in the SicrraS,
e. whence hr opposed, like the lesser
/ Eugll~hmau that he was. his own tastes 10
. those ut the alien west In the present
4 instance ne felt it incumbent upon him not
j. only 70 assert his principles, hut to act up
n. ON them with his usual energy How far
= he VAS jmpelled hv tine halt contemptuouS
or PaSslvrucSs OF his companions II would he
W difficult 10 say
,r| What Is 20 prevent the pursuit OF them
~, It once. he asked suddenly. We are a
,, few miles from the station where horses
y can be procured. "
w ho's 10 do it, replied the other.
. IdziN- The stage company will lodge
+ the complaint with the authorities. but II
VIII take two days 70 get the county off,
Gers OUT, and its nobody elSe's funeral ~
will 20 for one, % said Hale. quietly.
Il have horse waiting tor me al the sta
ton, and can start ut once
/ There was an instant of silence. The
stage coach had left the obscurity of the
forest, and by the stronger light Hale
/ could perceive that his companion WAS cy- |
aiming him with two ColorleSS. law eyes
Presently be said, meeting Haie's clear
glance, but rather as il Welding to care. /.
less reflection:
10 might be done with four men. We .
oughter raise one man at the station. " /
lie paused. Il don't know ez I'd mind .
taking hand myself" he added. stretch /
inE out his legs with slight yuwn.
lou can count No, in, il Won re gOin'. .
Kernel reckon I'm talkin' to Kernel .
Lilnch, said the passenger beside Hale .
with sudden alacrity Pm Rawlins. OF /.
Frisco. Heerd OF We atore. Kernel. and .
kinder spotted you just now from your
talk.
To Hale's surprise the two men. after
awkwardly and perfunctOrily grasping
each Others hand, entered at once into a
laUguld conversation on the recent election
at Fresno, without the slightest further
reference 10 the pursuit of the robbers 1t
was not until the remaining and unde-
nominated passenger turned To Hale, and,
rrgrettlng that he had immediate business
at the summit, offered TO accompany the
party if they would wait couple OF hours,
that Col Clinch briefly returned to the
subject.
-Four men will do and ez Wen hey to
take horses from the station Wen hey to
take the fourth man from there"
With these words he resumed his unin-
terrsting conversation with the equally I'M
RawliuS, and the undenomi-
mated passenger subsidized into an admiring
and dreamy contemplation of them both.
With all his principle and really high
minded purpose, Hale could not help
telling constrained and annoyed Mt the
sudden, subordinate and auxiliary position
to which he, the protector OF the enter
prise, had been reduced. Ii was true that
he had never offered himself as their
leader; it was true that the principle he
wished to uphold and the effect he sought To
obtain would be equally demonstrated I'M
der another; 10 was true that the execution
pf his own conception gravitated by some
occult impulse to the man who had not I
sought il, and whom he had always regard
I'll rs an Incapable. But all this WAS 50 I
mike precedent or tradition that, after
he fashion OF conservative men. he was I
suspicious of it, and only that his honor {
vas now involved he would have with
!rawn from the enterprise There was {
till a chance of reaSSerting himself at the
station, where he was known, and where :
,ome authority might be deputed to him. Q
But even this prospect failed. The sta S